Distinguishing Characters

[ReneZ]

In fact on the last occasion that I asked you then you said that you thought the Voynich to be written in cipher.

Just to be very clear, all the collected evidence about the behaviour of the Voynich MS text tells me exactly the opposite. I do not believe that this is a cipher, in the sense that ciphers should be understood in the late middle ages and early modern times. I am quite open to the possibility that some method was used to convert a plain text to the result we now see in the Voynich MS. One might of course just call that method a cipher, but it will not be anything like the usual concept of a cipher.  

At the same time, I consider all on-going searches in archives for evidence of old ciphers to be of great interest. This is an area of interest by itself, completely independent of whether or not this brings new insights in the meaning of the Voynich MS.

When one starts a search, the level of conviction that one is going to find the thing one wants is unfortunately no measure of success. At the same time, more often than not one will find other things, and it is also not unusual to realise the relevance of these only much later.